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Psalm 63:3

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63:3Because7 experiencing8 your loyal love is better than life itself,

my lips will praise you.

Read in Logos
Psalm 63:3–4: Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.

Footnotes

  1. 7 This line is understood as giving the basis for the praise promised in the following line. Another option is to take the Hebrew particle כִּי (ki) as asseverative/emphasizing, “Indeed, your loyal love is better” (cf. , which leaves the particle untranslated).
  2. 8 The word “experiencing” is supplied in the translation for clarification. The psalmist does not speak here of divine loyal love in some abstract sense, but of loyal love revealed and experienced.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Because your steadfast love is better than life,

my lips will praise you.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Because your love is better than life,

my lips will glorify you.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

My lips will glorify you

because your faithful love is better than life.

NLTNew Living Translation

Your unfailing love is better than life itself;

how I praise you!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Because your loyal love is better than life,

my lips will praise you.

KJV 1900King James Version

Because thy lovingkindness is better than life,

My lips shall praise thee.